...revealing one continuous and sublime activity — creation. Regions of lucid matter taking forms, Urushes of fire, hazy gleams, Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like swarms Of suns, and starry streams. And this is but a system. At distances which defy our telescopes others illumine trackless space. We...

...rose animmense tower : — Hither, when all the deep unsounded skies Shudder'd with silent stars, ehe clomb, And as with optic glasses her keen eyes Pierced...Of suns and starry streams. She saw the snowy poles and moons of Mars, That marvellous field of drifted light In mid Orion, and the married stars " At...

...sties Shuddered with silent stars, she clomb, And as with optic glasses her keen eyes Piereed thro' the mystic dome, Regions of lucid matter taking forms,...Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like swarms Of snns, and starry streams. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky...

...SUN' * 8ATURS AND ITS SYSTEM* tflV. * Hither, whtn all the deep unsounded skies Shuddered with -iU-iu stars, she clomb, And as with optic glasses her keen...Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like swarms Of sunn, and marry stream*. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Man, That marvellous round of milky light...

...she clomb. And as with optic glasses her kecn eyes Pierced through the myatlc dome, Regions of ludd matter taking forms. Brushes of fire, hazy gleams, Clusters and beds of worlds, and bce-llke swarms Of tuns, and starry streams. She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mara, That marvellous...

...inconceivable flights, challenging the outmost nebulœ for their meaning, urging the willing mind through "Regions of lucid matter taking forms, Brushes of...worlds, and beelike swarms Of suns, and starry streams," is one of the most entrancing exercises of the highest and most cultured minds. But it is not only...

...always felt great interest in the Bears and Lions, the Chained and Chaired Ladies, King Cepheusand the Rescuer, Perseus, Orion, Ophiuchus, Hercules,...Clusters and beds of worlds and beelike swarms Of suns, aud starry streams : She saw the snowy poles of moonless Mars, That marvellous round of milky light...

...the deep unsounded skies Shuddered with silent stars, she clomb, And as with optic glass her keener eyes Pierced through the mystic dome, Regions of lucid...gleams, Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like Bwarms Of suns and starry streams. These are now withdrawn from the poem, but no reader need be at...

...the deep unsounded skies Shuddered with silent stars, she clomb, And as with optic glass her keener eyes Pierced through the mystic dome, Regions of lucid...gleams, Clusters and beds of worlds, and bee-like swarms ОГ suns and starry streams." These are now withdrawn from the poem, but no reader need be at a loss...

...not ! Look out, I say, and gaze upon those eternal regions of space, — and behold ffis works : " Regions of lucid matter taking forms, Brushes of fire,...and bee-like swarms Of suns, and starry streams," and return to ask yourself whether the Spirit of God is not there rather than in the vain dogmas of...